The Yasuni Biosphere Reserve: The Most Biodiverse place on Earth!

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We are excited to share our experience and knowledge of the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, We offer wide range of experiences including Educational Trips, Nature Tours, Birding, Wildlife Photo and Video trips...and much more.

Enjoy Adventures in the Yasuni searching for Wildlife and Flora!

Overview: Frogs of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. We invite you to learn about the fascinating world of the Frogs of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador Until two decades ago, the site considered as the most diverse in the world…

Learn about the Common Trees of the Amazon Rainforest living in the Yasuní. During your Trip to the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador, you will be loaded with the number of trees. It seems endless, Yes! The Amazon Rainforest is an…

The Amazon Rainforest or the Amazon Basin? Which term is Right to use? The Amazon Rainforest describes a whole Tropical Evergreen Forest between the Andes and the Guyana Shield and Amazon Basin refers to the drainage system of the Amazon…

The Ecuador Wildlife Trip Report: Explorations of Eastern Ecuador. We just had an amazing Ecuador Wildlife Trip and we would like to report, we explored Ecuador’s Diversity of Life, as Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin did, we want to experience the mosaic of…

The Insects of the Amazon Rainforest. The Insects of the Amazon Rainforest are most diverse group of creatures living, adapted to live everywhere you look in the forest. these forest creatures can be found in different shapes and colors. The…

Welcome to Shiripuno Amazon Lodge

Welcome to Diversity of Life!

Where Life has evolved into millions of ways to excited your senses, come and join us to feel embraced by millions in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador.

Shiripuno Amazon Lodge is a privileged remote location surrounded by miles of unbroken pristine tropical Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest, We provide an extraordinary set of opportunities for Bird Watching, Wildlife Photography, Nature Explorations and Educational Programs for Schools and Universities Programs.

Shiripuno Amazon Lodge surrounded by miles of unbroken Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador.

Amazon Rainforest Insects. Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador.

Amazon Tree Frog. Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador.

Have you ever dreamed of exploring the wonders of the Amazon Rainforest?

If you’ve longed to experience firsthand the spectacular sights, sounds and scents of the world’s most diverse ecosystem on Earth.

These experts and guides are from the Waorani community. And most noteworthy, they are willing to share their abundant knowledge of the area by creating an educational as well as a pleasurable experience.

Most of all, here at Shiripuno Amazon Lodge you will experience adventures. Adventures in areas rich with wildlife and flora. As a result, these are Adventures most people can only dream of and will never see in there lifetime!

Since our Lodge is adjacent to the Shiripuno Research Center and it is the most remote biological station in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin.

And most of wildlife has never been exposed to humans. Therefore making our pristine Amazon wilderness preserved through careful management of all our activities.

Finally, their mission is to establish studies on Natural History and Tropical Ecology.

Please join us because you will thoroughly enjoy all the amazing varieties of birds, animals and reptiles that Yasuni Biosphere Reserve has to offer.

The forest clay clicks is a special location for several species of forest creatures such as tapir, bats, deers, peccaries, tapirs, macaws , pigeon guans and others.

Squirrel Monkeys are New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri. They are the only genus in the subfamily Saimirinae. The name of the genus is of Tupi origin (sai-mirim or gai-mbirin < sai 'monkey' and mirim 'small') and was also used as an English name by early researchers. Wikipedia

Shiripuno Lodge – Frugivores very important in the forest, they play a dispesing seed for many trees, liana, epifitas and other plants use Common Woolly Monkey.

Napo Saky Monkey. Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador

The pygmy marmoset is a small species of New World monkey native to rainforests of the western Amazon Basin in South America. The species is notable for being the smallest monkey and one of the smallest primates in the world, at just over 100 grams. Wikipedia

Red Brocket Deer ~ Shiripuno Lodge ~ Amazon Rainforest Mammals

Napo Saky Monkey . Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador

The Lowland Tapir is the largest mammalliving in the Amazon Rainforest, it feeds on fresh and young leaves and visit forest clay licks.

Nine-banded Armadillo. Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador.

Shiripuno Lodge – Peccary Pit Hole in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.

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Humboldt’s Woolly Monkey. Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador

The White-bellied Spider Monkey (Ateles belzebuth), also known as the white-fronted or long-haired spider monkey, is an endangered species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey. It is found in the north-western Amazon in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil, ranging as far south as the lower Ucayali River and as far east as the Branco River. Over the last 45 years (3 generations), the population has declined by approximately 50% due to habitat loss and hunting.[6] Because of this, A. belzebuth is listed as endangered by the IUCN. Wikipedia

Shiripuno Lodge ~ The Amazon Horned Rain Frog, it’s a ground-dweller amphibian using its camouflage waits for its prey to pass by, the sit-and-wait technique is used by many species of the Amazon Rainforest.

Hypsiboans Tree Frog ~ Shiripuno Lodge ~ Amazon Herping Week

Calico is ground-dwelling snake, found in the flooded forest of the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.

Fer-de-lance resting along the trunk we used for crossing. Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.

The Smooth-fronted Caiman likes to eat catfish.

Trachycepahlus Tree Frog ~ Shiripuno Lodge ~ Amazon Herping Week

A new species of the hylid frog genus Osteocephalus from the upper Amazon Basin of Ecuador and Pen! is described. It most closely resembles 0, planiceps, but it differs in the absence of pale stripes on the heels and above the vent, in being smaller, and lacking brown spots on the Hanks. The new species, O. yasuni, is unique within Osteocephalus in having extensive yellow ventral coloration.